Employers must take personal responsibility for low wages

12:48 PM,
Jan. 13, 2014

Written by

Tina Dupuy

Right here, right under their noses, 48 million Americans are, as Sen. Marco Rubio puts it, "soon-to-haves." Because nothing says you under-stand institutional and generational poverty like using corporate-ese to describe it.

Now that Republicans have acknowledged one-fifth of the wealthiest country in the world is impoverished, they're debating whether this is a viable issue for them. This doesn't always work out for the Party of Saying "Reagan." Notably the Grand Old Party tried to curry favor with religious groups, ...